Art of Work, in partnership with NZISM bring you a Master Class for business leaders and managers interested in improving safety by building and aligning organisational strengths.

Safety has traditionally been about the elimination of negative outcomes. In the pursuit of this goal, people have increasingly become a problem to control, and safety a bureaucratic activity. In this one day Master Class, participants will learn how safety can be managed by seeing people as a resource to harness, how safety can be about enabling things to go right, and how safety can become an ethical responsibility to do what is right.

Safety Differently suggests a paradigm shift in how organisations understand and manage safety. This paradigm sees deviations and people’s behaviours not as the causes of incidents, but as symptoms of how work is organised. To adapt and overcome, organisations can focus on building strengths, harnessing the potential of their people to contribute, and find direction by doing what is right by their employees.

Over the last 5 years, a growing number of organisations have developed practices and methods that help organisations to organise safety differently. In this one day Master Class, attendees will be introduced to the ideas and principles that underpin the Appreciative Safety movement, but also the proven tools, methods and practices that allow organisations to manage safety differently.

Daniel Hummerdal, Director of Safety Innovation at Art of Work will be presenting the day. Daniel is recognised in Australia and overseas as a leading safety thinker and practitioner. After an initial career as a commercial pilot, Daniel studied psychology, graduating with a Master of Science in Psychology from Linköping University in Sweden. Daniel also holds Masters level courses in Human Factors in Aviation. He has worked as an accident investigator with the Swedish Civil Aviation Administration, as a Human Factors consultant with Dedale (France), and been engaged in industrial safety research in Sweden, France and Australia. Daniel has most recently been the Safety Innovation Leader for Thiess based in Brisbane and prior to this corporate role he was the Safety Practices Leader at Sinclair Knight Merz. Daniel is passionate about finding innovative ways to help organisations to improve safety. He is also the founder of www.safetydifferently.com

Participants will learn:

Why focusing on what helps and hinders normal work will improve safety

How people are a solution to harness, rather than a problem to control

New ways to measure safety that will drive empowerment and innovation

Why leaders need to host conversations about what goes on at work

How organisations can learn from what goes right

How organisations have managed to build their safety management systems on the Safety Differently principles

Participants will receive:

Copies of the presentation material

Membership to Art of Work’s exclusive Lighthouse Centre of Excellence

Access for 6 months to a Master Class web portal loaded with resources relating to foundations of safety differently, including case studies, change strategies, journal articles, book references, links to e-resources, and tools to collaborate with other participants beyond the Master Class event.

Testimonials from previous Appreciative Safety Master Classes:

The Appreciative Safety Master Class gave me new ideas on how we can engage our people for improved performance. - David Schelbach, Global Manager HSE, IXOM

The Appreciative Safety Master Class is a truly different learning experience and great for those looking to challenge their perspectives and views on health and safety. - Tim Fleming, General Manager HSE - Australia Hub - Laing O'Rourke

This Master Class outlines the most innovative and progressive safety thinking available. It allows participants to think outside the box and identify practical opportunities for change. - David Provan, General Manager HSE Origin

Event details:

When: 8am-5pm

Venue: Chateau on the Park, a DoubleTree by Hilton189 Deans Avenue, Riccarton 8011, Christchurch, New Zealand